Word: cigaret
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...life scared him badly. Last week, 38 years later, General Douglas MacArthur was back in the Philippines fighting the toughest battle of his life. But he was not scared. As the bombs whistled down near him, an orderly tried to shoo him to a dugout. "Give me a cigaret, Eddie," said MacArthur, and went on watching...
Sergei Rachmaninoff played at his first concert (with the New York Philharmonic) since he burned the forefinger of his right hand. To protect his fingers from cracking, he had put on collodion, a bandage. Then he lit a cigaret. When he ripped off the burning bandage, he ripped off a layer of the "new skin," a layer of real skin, postponed a tour to Dallas and Chicago...
...mammoth victory for tall, young Edward H. Miller, chief attorney for the U.S. Justice Department, who switched his own smoke to a 15? brand of cigarets called Charing Cross before the trial. His description of how the $1,000,000,000 U.S. cigaret industry operates-the most complete description yet on record-will stand unless the inevitable appeal reverses...
...Miller's point was simply that the whole cigaret industry from farm to match was controlled by the manufacturers...
...nobody, not even Thurman Arnold, had any notion of how else the cigaret industry could or should operate. Arnold, whom Max Lerner has placed in the "corrosive detachment" school of economic criticism, merely snorted that "competitive buying presupposes that nobody will tell business how it should be run." Unless fines can teach a whole industry some new way to make money, there is still no assurance that henceforth tobacco will not be bought and cigarets sold in just about the same way as before...